Well, we've gone and done it! My husband and I have always talked about getting chickens since we live in the country and our neighbors over the backyard fence have quite a few fowl themselves, but we put it off thinking "we'll do it next year".
In passing last week, I overheard someone mention that one of the local ranch supply stores would be "giving away" up to 5 chicks per family if you bought a bag of feed on the day before Easter. I told this to my husband and we agreed that we would go ahead and take the plunge. So, on Saturday, we loaded all 4 kiddos into the car at 8am (because we wanted to be prepared for the flock of chicken-buyers we were sure would swarm the place) and headed out to the ranch supply store.
Mind you, we hadn't done any breed research or made plans for a coop at this point, but that seems to be the way we tend to operate...much to my chagrin at times.
Now we have a rubbermaid tote full of tiny peeps. We each picked out one chick then hubby and I got 2 little banties to toss in the mix just for fun. Pics will be forthcoming in the next day or two.
Guess I'd better get hopping on figuring out a coop, huh?!
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